InsideOutSanta

You can defend someone's right to say something while disagreeing with it, not supporting it, and not wanting to be associated with it. By publishing that blog post, Tor isn't attacking free speech; they are participating in it. As are you, when you respond to them, and I, when I respond to you.

> They decided it's more important to virtue signal

I'm always a bit confused by people using the term "virtue signaling". Do you never try to make ethical decisions in your life? If you do, why is it so hard to believe others are, too?

At least we know a human wrote the website.

"The most common defense of agentic loops is that developer time is the most expensive resource of all. If an agent saves you an hour of work, spending $12 on tokens is theoretically a massive ROI.

In reality, it rarely plays out this way outside of synthetic benchmarks."

I'm sure there are drastic differences between companies, depending on what they do. But for us, project effort has dropped by a factor of ten. Stuff we used to estimate at two work weeks (and then barely finish in that time) now takes a day. Code quality has actually gone up, since we spend some of the time we gain refactoring old code and implementing proper architecture that we would have skipped before to ship to clients faster.

The value Anthropic's Team Premium seat (which we use) provides is so disproportionate to its cost that I don't understand why they don't raise the price.

By your logic, every other country "impinges on US sovereignty" because they can arrest US citizens within their own borders.

FWIW, that's not how the ICC works, any more than your national legal system is "ten guys working together to beat you up if they don't like you."

The fact that this rogue organization thinks it can undermine the official FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World™ by being associated with someone who received this fake prize is probably why they are now being justly sanctioned.

Just a few years ago, this wouldn't even have been remotely on people's radar as something they should or could do.

You don't compare yourself to the underdogs. Coke never made a "we're better than Pepsi" ad, but Pepsi definitely compared itself to Coke.

For example, Anthropic putting K3 in its comparisons would be a huge admission that K3 is worth considering.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o

People used to append IANAL to such statements :-)

> I personally think that proposition is invalid

I agree, but that's meaningless in this context. I was responding to the claim that "if they wanted to pace the frontier, would simply do it", which is false, given what they actually believe.

No.

Sure, but does slowing down the development of new models count as "adopting safety standards"? I very much doubt it.

> Anthropic believes their work has a 10% chance of killing all humans

This ignores the other part of what they believe, which is that they are the people most likely to make a model that doesn't do that. So, in their view, letting other companies win would increase the probability of human extinction.

> with one half of the frontier duopoly gone, the other half would have no incentive to race forward

I don't see how this could possibly be true, with at least half a dozen companies being just months behind what the frontier labs are releasing.

I'm assuming this is a sarcastic response to the person who said "640K [RAM] ought to be enough for anybody!"

Because, as somebody who was around when we had 640 K RAM, people certainly weren't happy with that amount.

The system prompt is injected into your context on the server side.

I don't think that's a fair assessment. These companies are in a Nash equilibrium where they can't unilaterally slow down without essentially destroying their company. They also can't coordinate with each other, because that's illegal. Antitrust law generally prohibits competing companies from agreeing to restrict innovation.

"Why do you hate pizza, jackass?"

I'm never sure how to feel about this kind of thing. On one hand, it's kind of interesting to see the self-destruction, and having qualified people return to Europe can only be a good thing for Europe. OTOH, it's scary to see, and I'm unsure whether I prefer a world where China gains much more power.

"You can still use the Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, and third-party apps with your subscription limits."

"The agent is given access to the user's personal context, e.g., their email inbox and a structured profile of personal attributes, with the intention of making an optimal, personalized decision for the user. We show that by simply providing this personal context, the agent steers recommendations based on inferred wealth, without being explicitly instructed to do so."

It's not changing prices based on the user's wealth, it's making different recommendations, which, to me, is both expected and desired behavior.